Tag: Feature
ESG-related issues fuelling regulatory action and litigation as we head into 2023, warns AGCS
Regulatory action or litigation risks due to environment, social and governance (ESG)-related issues are a major concern for boards as we head into 20 [...]
How Zep-Re is implementing a World Bank-backed project to reach 250,000 pastoralists in the Horn of Africa and enabling $500M in private capital
Zep-Re (PTA Reinsurance Company) is implementing the first component of a World Bank-backed project that is targeting to enable more than US$500 milli [...]
ARC launches its first product against high-impact epidemic risks
The Pan-African Risk Management Capacity (ARC) has launched a parametric insurance product against high-impact epidemic risks and Senega [...]
Green hydrogen: full of promise but not without risk
From the Apollo space mission to Zeppelin airships, human ingenuity has long dreamed up ways to make the power of hydrogen fly. Now, as the world powe [...]
Just energy transition: using investment banks’ financing ‘levers’ to maximise climate impact
Active stewardship and green or sustainability-linked bonds and loans are among the mechanisms that large financial institutions are deploying to help [...]
Insurance gaining traction across CIMA region, says Zep Re
You come from what have been growing insurance markets. Is that growth still happening? And what is driving it?
Yes, premiums have be [...]
Climate risk insurance platform and parametric insurtech team up to deliver faster claims payments
Climate risk insurance platform Yokahu, alongside flood parametric insurtech FloodFlash, are to collaborate with global fintech Vitesse to significant [...]
Business must revisit insurance plans as risk of unrest continues to rise in South Africa
Businesses need to reassess their approach to the risks of civil unrest as new research warns of the impact of inequality, according to risk managemen [...]
Africa bearing the brunt of climate change but innovation is making a difference
From Madagascar’s deadly tropical storms to the 22 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya struggling to find enough to eat, Africa bears the sc [...]
WTW launches research into drivers of geopolitical risk
WTW has launched a research programme, coordinated by the WTW Research Network, focusing on the most significant drivers of geopolitical risk and what [...]